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Re: PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 02 May 2005 14:42:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Use a double section list to speed up linker by 30%
- References: <20050501165707.GA13713@lucon.org> <d53t7v$kod$1@sea.gmane.org>
Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:
> H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> > I know some people have concerns over memory usage. But I will take a
> > faster linker with a bigger memory footprint than a slower linker any
> > day. I am planning to include it in the Linux binutils if it isn't in
> > the FSF binutils.
>
> The linker grew a `--reduce-memory-overheads' option that could be used to control
> such behaviour. Can you make your change conditional on that switch?
I didn't notice that when it went in. Should
--reduce-memory-overheads imply --no-keep-memory?
Ian